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Afghan farmers were upset when the Taliban banned opium cultivation this month and experts say the Taliban's cash-strapped, pariah government is unlikely to provide alternative livelihoods for the farmers. ....
Team 6 had been killed, shepard. shepard: overall, jennifer, the statistics seem to show that attacks from members of al-qaeda, i should say taliban fighters are really on the rise. reporter: well, you re referring to a new report that came out today from the pentagon. it is a quarterly report that is issued to congress in which they are required to make an assessment of the progress in afghanistan in order to get funding. here s the headline. during the reporting period, enemy initiated attacks were up 1% compared to the same period last year due in large part to a shortened poppy harvest employing low level insurge yerntinsurgentsfar less than la. at the height of the insurgency, all u.s. surge troops are home and 76% of the country is under the security control of the afghan government, according to this new report. ....
Barbara, the taliban had warned that there would be big attacks, and certainly it looks as though they ve already delivered. well, they ve already gotten started, haven t they, fred? this warning by the taliban of a major new spring offensive not a surprise, really, to the troops that are there. they have seen it in the past. the weather has warmed up, the poppy harvest is under way. this is sort of what happens. but nato took steps this week to ramp up its own security and try and beef up security with afghan forces, with afghan civilians in anticipation of this. what they expect are the taliban mainly in eastern afghanistan to go after civilians, to go after those so-called soft targets that we ve talked about. places in afghanistan where the people are unable to protect themselves. to expect to see nato troops watching very carefully for all of this and expect them to try and continue to work with the afghan forces even though we ve seen a number of attacks in recent days where u. ....